The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-22
CLEV GLANDS RAPID TRIP.
HIS PARTY SPENDS AN HOUR RID
ING ABOUT ASHEVILLE

One Thousand Hardy Mountaineers
Greet Him on Horseback in their
Working Clothes-A Galloping Caval-
cade Accompanies the Carriages on
the Drive-Flight of the Train.
AsHEvILLE, n. c., Oct. 21.-The PreSi-
Dental party reached here at 1915 o'clock
this morning They were met by the entire
population, ahd escorted through the city
in carriages. They remained half an hour.
This mornings run of the Presidents
special train, between sunrise and late
breakfast, took in the ascent of the great
smoky spur of the Alleghanies the line lying
for fifty miles or more beside the French
Broad river. Not all the tourists were up
and the laggards missed the panorama,
whose varied charms are nowhere sur
passed. AT Hot Springs Senators Ransom
and Vance and Congressman Henderson
boarded the train and accompanied the
President to Asheville. About o'clock the
watches of the party, which were set back
three weeks ago at Pittsburg, were ad-
vanced from Central TO Eastern time.
AN HOUR AT AsHEvILLE.
OLD FORT, N c., Oct 21-The stop at
AoHSNlii6. ". -, was Stutuuleu lOI Oiily
fifteen minutes, but it lasted an hour. The
municipal authorities and host of citizens
welcomed the President at the station, and
escorted him and his companions to car
riages, and took them through
the town. The way for half a mile
was up a steep hill and it struck
the guests as an oddity that their conduc-
tors, in calling attention to the natural
beauty of the situation, should refer to the
locality as a valley. Therefore North Caro-
lima was better understood when the summit
was reached from which on all sides could
be seen from ten to fifty miles distant the
tops of the Blue Ridge, Balsam range, the
Smokers and Black mountains, hemming in
fertile regio& whose knolls, from 500 to
800 feet, were dwarfed to pigmies in
comparison. The party's most active escort
was a score of ladies and gentlemen on
horseback who led the way up and down
the steep mountain roads in gallop. A
feature of the reception was the line formed
by 1000 mounted nlountaineers and country
people, clad in their everyday habits, but
with their brides bedecked with little flags
and their equipages trimmed with ever
greens. From Asheville eastward the rail-
way kept close company with the Swannoa.
The mountain scenery was no less grand
than that of the earlier morning. A few
minutes after noon the train shot through
the tunnel under the uppermost crest of the
Alleghanies and began its descent of the
Atlantic slope.
RUNNING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
MoRGANToN, N. c., Oct. 21.-During the
descent of the mountain along the banks of
Mill creek, the headwaters of Catawba,
the entire party, including the wife and
daughter of Senator Ransom, who came on
at Asheville, assembled in the observatory,
the President and Mrs. Cleveland standing
most of the way on the platform. Maj.
McBee, the railroad superintendent, called
attention to the points of interest a dozen
of which were in sight at one time The
remarks of the least poetic of the tourists
were broken and ejaculatory, while the
artist became also incoherent and wanted to
get of.
CHEERING MRS. CLEVELAND.
TECUMSEH, ALA, Oct. 21.-At Calera, a
junction point in Alabama, where the train
stopped to change engines, 5000 or 1000
persons were assembled, and among them
500 workmen from Birmingham, who had
come on a special train with their cars gayly
decorated Here three cheers were given
for Mrs. Cleveland and the President Mrs.
Cleveland remarked sottO UOce: They have
got the wrong end first But the President
thought the people knew what they were
about.
wHIZzING PAST LYNCHBURG.
LYNCHBURG. VA, Oct. 2L-The Presi-
Dental special train passed here at II o'clock
without stopping.